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Amazon ECR vs IBM Cloud Container Registry comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon ECR
Ranking in Container Registry
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Cloud Container Registry
Ranking in Container Registry
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Amazon ECR is 16.9%, down from 17.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Cloud Container Registry is 1.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon ECR16.9%
IBM Cloud Container Registry1.8%
Other81.3%
Container Registry
 

Featured Reviews

PrashantaPaudel - PeerSpot reviewer
Wordpress Trainer at SpeedZone.fi
Has supported container workflows through fast image handling and seamless service integrations
The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is that we can push and pull faster than other similar products. It means saving and retrieving more efficiently. This is not manual dragging and dropping, but rather programmatic taking and saving. I have used Amazon ECR with Lambda, EC2, and EFS. These are integrable services where you can call Amazon ECR from anywhere in AWS. If my product is not always dependent totally on Amazon ECR only, but if the product is dependent on Amazon ECR only, then having a low time to load, low time to save, and a faster containerizing process time would affect the software's response time. This is important.
Manuel Cruz - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology at Universidade do Porto
Ensures students only have access while on campus but is expensive
It was limited because it was only to support a program. There was some benefits because we didn't have the infrastructure physically, so we would have to buy it. We didn't have to make an investment at the beginning. It has pay-as-you-use pricing. It was good for us. In this Business Intelligence and Analytics program, there are about 15 courses. In 10 courses, they use the cloud infrastructure, different software. They have MySQL database with lots of data. They have to do exercises and and analyze the the data. Basically, they had to do a lot of exercises regarding machine learning. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The integration with AWS services is very easy, and the deployment and initial setup are pretty straightforward."
"The lifecycle policies of Amazon ECR help manage storage costs in my project by maintaining version control over the containerized images that we are keeping there."
"The most valuable feature is that Amazon ECR is very simple and useful."
"There are no issues, the service is remarkably stable, and it's rare to see the registry experiencing downtime unless perhaps AWS itself is completely down."
"The main feature I value is the ability to deposit and retrieve images."
"ECR provides robust security features, including image scanning and vulnerability assessment, supported by AWS identity and access management for fine-grained access control."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is that we can push and pull faster than other similar products."
"The solution is very stable."
"The product is efficient and can be used for multiple environments."
"We use the the IBM cloud to provide the computing solution for the course."
 

Cons

"The Amazon ECR interface could benefit from improvements to enhance user experience."
"Providing more ways to scan the image integrated with ECR would enhance security in the software development life cycle."
"There could be improvements to the interface of AWS concerning ECR."
"One area for improvement in Amazon ECR is its complexity. It's pretty complex for newbies, particularly learning about private repositories, including how to access Amazon ECR through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)."
"ECR is reliable, however, I don't consider it the best container registry available."
"I suggest making it more aligned with the Docker registry version two API specification."
"Amazon ECR should improve the integration with Amazon CloudWatch. For example, allowing us to monitor the queues better. Additionally, some of the features could be made more accessible."
"Amazon ECR's manipulation capability of tags needs to be improved."
"IBM Cloud Container Registry should improve its API management. One improvement factor could be enhancing the integration capabilities of container registries like Harbor with hyperscaler platforms. While some container registries, like Azure Container Registry and IBM Cloud Container Registry, are tightly integrated with their respective hyperscaler environments, others may lack integration options."
"Price should be reduced."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company currently has Amazon ECR under the pay-as-you-go model. The tool is more affordable than Azure Container Registry, and it's worth the money."
"Amazon ECR does not have a high cost."
"The solution's prices are high in India as compared to the US."
"The solution's price is reasonable compared to its competitors"
"The product is expensive."
"The main difference between Amazon ECR and other solutions, like Google Kubernetes Engine, is that I haven't personally used GKE. However, I know that GKE costs around $60 per month, which is quite cost-effective."
"The product is recommended to enterprises due to its high costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon ECR?
When it comes to pricing for Amazon ECR, that is the only area AWS has to look into. Services like IoT services or SageMaker are very high, and many times customers complain that while the initial ...
What needs improvement with Amazon ECR?
For potential areas of improvement in Amazon ECR, I need to check if AWS has features similar to Azure Defender for scanning, getting vulnerabilities, and patching recommendations. Regarding additi...
What is your primary use case for Amazon ECR?
The main use case for Amazon ECR is that whatever containerized image we are building will be pushed to Amazon ECR, and then it will get deployed into a Kubernetes cluster. I appreciate that if my ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Container Registry?
I rate the pricing at six on a scale, of ten where ten is expensive.
What is your primary use case for IBM Cloud Container Registry?
We have the infrastructure for an executive program on business intelligence and analytics. We use the the IBM cloud to provide the computing solution for the course.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Container Registry
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits
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